I was delighted to find this out of print recording on YouTube this week:

My father shares a writing credit w/ Ornette on the tune:

It is curious that the B-side of “Man on the Moon” is named “Growing Up”. For me personally, listening to “Man on The Moon” evokes memories of my childhood. When I was a child growing up in SoHo, Ornette lived in our building. In those years, artists (including my parents) were living in, working out of and renovating entire floors of empty factory buildings in SoHo – all before zoning allowed residential use. In 1970, our building became known for a few years as ‘Artist House‘. Ornette intended Artist House to serve as a live-work performance space for ‘artists of all kinds’. According to jazz.com, residents of Artist House included Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins and Truvenza Coleman, Ornette’s sister.

Ornette lived on the third floor and used the ground floor to rehearse and perform. He would come upstairs to my father’s electronic music studio from time to time and they would jam. Apparently my father recorded a few of these sessions, because there are a few reel-to-reel tapes in my father’s archive with Ornette’s name on the spine. Wonder what is on them! Can you imagine? I hope they are still transferable.

A few years after the release of Man on the Moon (on Impulse), my father performed some of the electronics and studies used for this recording at The Kitchen, on January 17, 1972:

As you can imagine, as a young child I was fascinated by the electronics. Between falling asleep to Ornette’s rehearsals and having (albeit limited) access to the tape machines, who could resist? It was in my father’s studio, on 2-track and 4-track tape machines, that I began to learn the basics of recording.

Dear Valerie,
meanwhile I was searchin’ on the web some news about Man On the Moon I found you interesting
liner notes about it.
I’m one of the fortunates owner of the disco (May Copy is: STATESIDE 2C 006-90643 M, a Pathé marconi/Emi
affiliated).
The news that I was searching concernig the label of the first long playing edition.
As I know that all the version of it was pressed only in France (probably the IMPULSE! too)
I think my copy could be the first edition of that 7 Inches record.
Are you so kind to solve my problem.
Have a good luck for your creative job
Greetings and thank you in advance
Luciano.

PS: I’m a close Don Cherry’s fans and I hope that in the archive of your father there are some tunes of him and someone will published it.
I apologized with you for my bad English

Sorry,
I forgot this:
Possibly the unissued material from the Crisis session, is the source of this material, which is extracts from performances. Again: Mike Hames in his discograpy suggests that Don Cherry do not plays on it. Directly, at the Harmolodic web site, Don Cherry do not appears as player so, it is not sure if the trumpet player is Don or Ornette.
Could you ask also if Don Cherry’s plays on it?
Greetings
Luciano